What name is given to the third state of the church?
Answer
"To the angel of the church in Pergamos write." Verse 12.
NOTE - The meaning of Pergamos is height, or elevation, and fitly represents that period of the
Christian church, beginning with the reign of the Emperor Constantine in AD. 313, when the power which
had put the Christians to death espoused the cause of the church, and by rewards, edicts, and promised
promotions to office in the government, sought to induce the people to become Christians, thus bringing a
flood of worldliness and corruption into the church. Many of the heathen rites and ceremonies previously
introduced into the Christian religion, including the heathen festival, Sunday (sun's day), were then
established by law, the result being that the first day of the week took the place of the Sabbath of the Bible.
By what name are the sacred writings of the Bible commonly known?
To whom are sinners brought by conversion?
What is the great purpose of Christ in His work of reconciliation?
24. In what prayer for those who crucified Him did Christ manifest the true spirit of the gospel-love for sinner?
What does Christ as the advocate of His people confess before the Father and His angels?
How did death enter the world?
What is an evidence of perfection?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle